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Selections for Bellewstown – Apr. 18th 2026
2.05: OLE OLE (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 2.40: STICKTOTHEPLAN – EW – (PHILIP ENRIGHT/OLIVER MCKIERNAN) 3.15: FIVER FRIDAY (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 3.50: BLUE REED – EW – (FINN BRICKLEY (7)/CIAN COLLINS) 4.25: BALLINEARLA GIRL – EW – (SEAN O’KEEFFE/EOIN DOYLE) 5.00: MIDDLETON RARE – EW – (ALAN O’SULLIVAN (7)/DERMOT MCLOUGHLIN) 5.35: GILLANE (EOGHAN FINEGAN (7)/GAVIN CROMWELL)
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From Kobe to Dowman, go with what you see before someone else cops it
On the first Sunday of December in 1997, Dunboyne and Summerhill drew 0-07 apiece in the Meath U-21 FC Final. Typically putrid winter dross wherein the only bit of excitement was yours truly taking exception to Mattie Kerrigan taking exception to one of our lads after their full back Barry Fagan had earned them the…
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Stickmen shaken up ahead of rendezvous with the Rossies
Johnny Greville has made four changes to the Meath Senior hurling team from that which lost out to Kerry in advance of tomorrow’s second round outing against Roscommon in King And Moffatt Dr Hyde Park. The midfield is completely realigned with Kilmessan’s Kyle Donnelly and Sean Colloe from Longwood replacing Joey Cole and Simon Ennis,…
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League champions unchanged
Hardly surprisingly, Robbie Brennan has named an unchanged side from that which defeated Cork in the NFL Div. 2 Final ahead of Sunday’s Leinster SFC opener against Westmeath in Tullamore. That means, though, that there are eight alterations from the team which lost out to Donegal in last year’s All Ireland semi final. However, as…
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Selections for Limerick – Apr. 16th 2026
1.05: FLY AWAY HOME (PHILIP BYRNES/CHARLES BYRNES) 1.35: COLLEEN DANU – EW – (SIMON TORRENS/PAT FOLEY) 2.10: HE CAN’T DANCE (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.45: ARCTIC FLAME – EW – (SIMON TORRENS/PAT FOLEY) 3.20: WILD WILD WIND – EW – (HUGH HORGAN (5)/MARK CAHILL) 3.55: UNCLE GERHARD – EW – (AIDAN KELLY (3)/GEAROID O’LOUGHLIN) 4.30: ORLANDO…
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Healy-Rae cute hoor-ism cods nobody but themselves
Earlier this week in the Irish Independent, Fionnan Sheehan – who I would have always counted as ridiculously anti Fianna Fail (at best) recounted a tale which Bertie Ahern told me himself at a wedding many moons ago now. It related to a time when the late, great Jackie Healy-Rae was supporting an FF led…
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Selections for Leopardstown – Apr. 15th 2026
1.22: ERETRIA (GAVIN RYAN/DONNACHA O’BRIEN) 1.57: ASAKIAR (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 2.32: THATWILDOSO – EW – (RORY CLEARY/KEVIN COLEMAN) 3.07: THE LION IN WINTER (WAYNE LORDAN/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 3.42: MIXED FEELINGS (JOEY SHERIDAN/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 4.17: TEFFIAN WARRIOR – EW – (ALAN O’SULLIVAN/CIARAN MURPHY) 4.52: THRU AND THRU (COLIN KEANE/RORY DEVINE) 5.27: METHGAL – EW – (BEN COEN/PAT…
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Job done, move on, start building
MEATH… 6-22 LAOIS… 0-07 In such no-win situations, there’s only one thing a body can do – win. Tick the box and move on. If you do manage to win, you are only doing as would have been expected and if you don’t well, let’s not go there. So, credit to them, when Trevor Giles’s…
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Maybe now the doubters – including himself – will desist
The following thought has often crossed my mind – if Meath had in fact beaten Down in the 1991 All Ireland SFC Final, would that special group of Royal County stars have got the acknowledgement they deserved as one of the finest ensembles to ever grace the big field in Dublin 3? Instead, that is,…
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Two changes going into last chance saloon
Trevor Giles has made two changes to the Meath Minor football team as they this evening head into the last chance saloon that is Laois Hire O’Moore Park for the Electric Ireland Leinster MFC Round 3 encounter against Laois. Na Fianna’s John Killoran, who impressed when introduced against Kildare, comes in at centre field, with…
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